No Harm Can Come to a Good Man by James Smythe

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Laurence Walker is about to run for the presidency and, when we meet him, appears to be the perfect candidate — steady marriage to Deanna, three children, a life that will bear any amount of scrutiny. But the first thing he must do is get himself on the right side of “ClearVista”, the computer program that makes predictions for the future, based on minute gathering and collating of data. Deanna looks at ClearVista on the day of a key meeting, and learns that her husband’s chances are standing at 63 per cent; Laurence’s political advisers don’t make a move without consulting